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I love my XPS17! It's still fast and works great for image editing, browsing and games. However, my 9-cell battery is on its last legs, and a few keys on the UK version of the backlit keyboard have worn out. Any suggestions where I can get these replaced without spending a fortune?

Thanks!

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Dell genuine battery on ebay would cost you £50
keyboard probably about the same.

I am haveing a problem with my L702x. Well, I left my laptop overnight to do the defragmentation of the HDD, but when I checked in the morning the screen was up side down. Then when I restarted the Laptop it went to booting up screen (i.e select to load w7 or to run diognostics). But at that moment I could not normaly select any option. The keyboard was not responding and only after pressing all the button randomly it loaded the w7. However, at that moment the keyboard was not responding when I tried to type in my password or it was typeing but random letter. I guess it is the problem with keyborad. Does anybody else had any similar problems? Plus, the screen sometime goes up side down when you restart the laptop.

Can you guys recommend a security cable that you're using with your l702x?

I never really had to take the laptop with me anywhere where I wouldn't feel safe, I'd always take my older vostro laptop for which I have a kensington security cable. Recently, I tried the cable on my XPS, but the lock is too close to the power plug - I can't have the laptop plugged in and locked with the security cable at the same time.

Sorry for my bad English.
I have the notebook in question (L702X), with Full HD 3D screen, and I tried to intsllare W9ndows XP, do not install the Nvidia drive, saying that they do not find the card.
How can you solve?
thanks

Hi there.. I am a new member, having my L702X since summer 2011, running strong, had there issues:
had my screen changed changed due to a white horizontal line
battery remanufactured 2 times (overheated by my own stupidity both times)
then screen bezel changed as it was broken after 3 years of usage.
My Dell application was reporting faulty optical drive with DW60 firmware, so I have downgraded to DW50, works fine
Had problems with some range of nvidia drivers, as my laptop would make new hardware found sound when closing the lid, identified an external screen somehow. Later drivers have solved it.

Now, my issue is that with current nvidia drivers it does not switch the screen off when closing the lid - just think about extra usage of power. Normal time based screen turn off works fine. My Dell application has screen close test - it fails it.Works fine in bios, so definitely driver/windows related.. Anybody have expierienced anything like that? Some older drivers from 332 series work fine, but since some update in spring 2014, it doesn't turn off. Has anybody ever experienced anything like that? Any workarounds apart from driver downgrade. People in nvidia forums don't seem to come up with solution. I can't be the only one! Here is my post from nvidia forums with technical details:

Hi, I am new in here, not so much of a gamer, but I have this annoying issue.

When I close the lid of my laptop with 340.43 installed, the screen does not turn off (just think about usage of energy and extra heat)

I know it was like that for some time, so I am not sure which driver started doing this. I did a quick check and noticed that 332.21 works fine.

This is not hardware fault as it works fine if I am not in windows (e.g. in BIOS)

This has nothing to do with power options as laptops do shut down their displays when they are closed all the time regardless of the options.